[ExI] Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

 

Spike  <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

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>> John if the current POTUS was acting like a king, he could force reopening of the government. 

 

>…He's not a king yet, but he's certainly a king wannabe…

 

On this we agree.  Fortunately the founders foresaw this and wrote a constitution.  King wannabes help Americans love our constitution.

 

>>… the FBI, which had already been caught falsifying evidence by that time,

>…Please tell me more, this is news to me…

 

John that you don’t know all about this case tells me everything.  I will offer enough keywords that you can find all the references you need.  In 2016, a campaign worker Carter Page had businesses in Russia.  The CIA asked him to make a number of contacts, which he did.  The FBI noticed this and applied for a FISA warrant to put him under covert surveillance.  The FBI asked the CIA if Page was one of theirs.  They replied to the affirmative.  The FBI inserted the word “not” into their reply and used that in the FISA application, which was granted, based on the falsified evidence.  The FBI gained access to the communications of a campaign worker of their own political adversary, using falsified evidence.

 

The FBI was caught.  But the guy whodunnit wasn’t imprisoned or even seriously punished.

 

After the FBI’s political adversary won, they failed to brief POTUS on the fact that he was under covert surveillance.  To not brief POTUS that he was under covert surveillance was illegal, even if we grant that it is illogical to brief a person that he is under covert surveillance, and has legal access to everything the FBI found on him.  Briefing POTUS that he was under covert surveillance is illogical, but not briefing him is illegal.

 

Given that self-made dilemma, the FBI chose illegal.

 

The FBI got caught.  Keywords: Kevin Clinesmith, Carter Page, FISA warrant, James Comey, Crossfire Hurricane, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Boasberg, John Durham, Mueller investigation.

 

The 2016 Operation Crossfire Hurricane transformed the FBI: it now must always be assumed partisan.  It was acting as a political partisan in 2016 with the Operation Crossfire Hurricane.  It was caught.    Now, it will ever be a partisan organization, which damages its credibility forever, and poses a danger to the USA forever: the premier federal law enforcement agency was once non-partisan, but now must be assumed to be working for whichever political party is in power.

 

This is a very bad thing.

 

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> Once the legal system gets weaponized as a political tool, that might be impossible to stop. 

 

>…At last, something that you and I agree on!   John K Clark

 

 

 

Indeed.  John there are plenty of things you and I agree on politically.  You have demonstrated that we can disagree on some things but get along just fine, while having perfectly calm and educational discussions about it.  You would be surprised at how much we agree on.  Example: political power is a dangerous thing which must be carefully controlled.  

 

You claim the current POTUS will try to hold the Oval Office after his term expires, I shrug and say OK, let him.  No harm done.  SCOTUS swears in whoever won the 2028 election, that guy gets the nuclear football and the access codes, it doesn’t matter where he is located.  The physical office doesn’t matter.  What matters is who has the legal authority to that office granted by the constitution.  Don’t ya just love the constitution?  So do we.  There ya go John, something we agree on.

 

spike  

 

 

 

 

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